"Talk about your Park Lane and the houses round Central Park; why, it's the Chicago Exposition, and the Paris one, and your Crystal Palace, multiplied by about ten thousand, and all spread out just round this one place.

If we don't find these people nice, I guess we'd better go back and build a fleet like this, and come and take it." "There spoke the new American imperialism," laughed Redgrave.

"Well, we'll go and see what they're like first, shall we ?" The _Astronef_ dropped a little more slowly than the air-ship had done, and remained suspended a hundred feet or so above her after she had reached the ground.

Swarms of human figures but of more than human stature, clad in tunics and trousers or knickerbockers, came out of the glass-domed palaces from all sides into the park.

They were nearly all of the same stature, and there appeared to be no difference whatever between the sexes.